I just don't get it !! .... No more Mr. Nice guy...

You try hard to do your best and you get very little back for your efforts even though you've given a lot more than most usually give..

I've been on ATS a long time. I'm not one of the worlds greatest posters, nor am i some amazing library full of "on the button" info that wows
people and earns flag after flag upon billions of stars.. I know that posting at certain times of day can affect a thread.. I realise thread titles
matter (but shouldn't).. I know that sometimes you'll make a thread and nothing happens... I've got loads of those.. But when you do a specific
thread for a specific purpose and get almost nowhere.. what's the point?

Recently I created a thread..
well, fair enough.. another thread to fill the ATS servers with text and vids.. whoop de doo...

But it's the work I puut into it.. it's the time that it took to be able to actually sit down and do it.. it's the content I provided that is going
to waste..

Yeah, yeah.. so what..

Well, to get this thread created I physicaly traveled a total of 400 miles, took an entire day of effort to obtain the content of the thread.. Then I
had to wait almost two months before I could actually post anything in relation to the topic due to restrictions imposed outside of ATS

so what happened once I posted the thread.. for three hours, not one reply.. Yes there were people looking at the thread..a couple of flags and
stars.. and that was it.

How many times have you gone into a thread and someone says "pics/vids or it didn't happen"?
In this thread of mine, I got pics.. I also have at least 11 vids.. one long one and the rest pretty short..
I wrote explanations for everyhting.. listed it all in a way that gave a tour of where I'd been..

I presented evidence...

Debateable evidence.. something to get your teeth into..

Yet still... no bites on the big juicy bit of bait on a very large hook..

Over a period of almost 4 days, 16 people trickled into the thread and got involved in it.. THANK YOU for taking part.

Some of the comments made by them were incredible.. did not imagine that.. but am grateful.

i'll post a couple..

Fantastically well done.
Thanks a lot Extralien for this thread!
lots of evidence!
Some good stuff here
Great thread- very interesting.
Brilliant thread and videos!!

ETC. etc.

So what's gone wrong.. why has my faith in the member of ATS been diminished? Why am i left with this sour taste of "why did I bother" in my
mouth..

I'm not ranting to promote the thread.. it's dying already.. slowly making its way down the forum list and my recent posts list.. dying the death it
had when it started..

The thread creator had the damned cheek to copy the entire news report and set each bit out in quote markers as if they'd actually done some work on
the thread..

i just simply do not get it..
What the heck do we need to do ....
How can a thread like this get so much response in just a few hours and get the same amount of pages that mine did in 4 days.. and mine with loads of
factual work and evidence to boot..

Some people just have their areas of interest and this happens to fall out of mine.

I mean you make it sound like the whole purpose was to post a thread in doing it in the first place? I mean was the sole purpose to get stars and
flags?
I commend you for mentioning your hobby on ATS, and the research you did, it adds to the community as a whole

i do understand what you mean about peoples interests.. and I did consider that...

The purpose of the thread was to add to the specific ATS forum in general.. I'm not a flag/star grabber.. nor am i an attention freak.. i just can't
get to grips why a whole lot of work ends up almost dead in comparison to someones copy/paste of an entire news report.

adding to the community is the point of any and all threads.. make each thread count. Give each thread a purpose.. not just slap up a new bit of paint
that was stripped of someone elses wall.

adding to the community is the point of any and all threads.. make each thread count. Give each thread a purpose.. not just slap up a new bit of
paint that was stripped of someone elses wall.

well ATS is pretty good at pointing that out when it happens.

Even though I kinda find those type of threads helpful, often times people refrence stuff years old that I may have missed...

Really though your 2nd post in that thread was complaining about lack of response, so you make a Rant on top of it?

That doesn't strike you as Thread whoring for stars and flags at all?

Ive had threads that I thought should of been more widely received, just keep plugging away and trying to add to the community and hope you inform
some people, and from the thread I see people where informed, and enjoyed it.

Maybe no one had anything nice to say about due to their personal beliefs or something of that accord and simply steered clear of that particular
thread? or

I only use Recent Posts to see what ATS tends to be thinking on a whole in this moment,
ATS is my general news site with the conspiracy element, so it would be easy to overlook your thread if it weren't there on the front page at the
exact same time i'm on. I probably would have read it and posted if I had something to say.

That's one of the problems with ATS, It is the threads of the more "tabloid" nature that seem to get the most attention and hang around on the
boards the longest. Most of my threads last a couple of hours, they are not controversial enough and don't provoke an argument.

Most of the popular threads on ATS revolve around race baiting issues or left vs right slagging matches.

It's easy to be overhelmed by the sheer volume of infomation so perhaps this is a problem.

I'm uninterested in ghosts and far more into UFO's, Area 51, Moon and Mars anomolies. I wouldn't click on a thread about this and I think maybe a
proportion of other ATS members feel the same way.

Maybe your thread was boring/incomplete/sensationalist etc. In my short time here I've learned to avoid thread with totles like 'OMG, inter-Galactic
Federation Warships orbitng the Sun on NASA-Cam' .
I also hate the assumptions some posters have; for example, I personally believe that some NASA photos have been altered. When someone makes a post
like,'NASA caught lying again. More doctored images and 'dust' when NASA are in fact currently working on their Warp-Factor 4v.094 to complete the
hyperdimensinal space tunnels they have tried to hide from us. Obvious theMSM are under the control of Borfff (shape shifter) and his wife Kwee from
the Pleiades. NASA have received more funding fom the KulKulKul lizards who live under Antarctica. These reptiles control the global drug trade with
the Queen, Obama and the CIA, and they're at was with the Pleiadians. AND YOU BELIEVED WHAT NASA TOLD YOU. LOL sheeple/shill/Government stoooge

Yes, I believe perhaps N ASA doctor mages but I don't like the assumption that if you don't accept conspiracy theorists stories you're a shill or a
stooge.

Might I suggest sending out PMs to those members you are friends with or have interest in paranormal topics?
Other members use this technique quite often and frankly were it not for their messages I would have never seen their threads as they tend to get lost
in the constant flow of new threads.
Very fine work and a big thumbs up for the accompanying videos and pics.
Like Benrl, paranormal subjects are not much to my interest so I have no comments as to the validity of the evidence you present.
Nicely made thread post though, done in true ATS style.

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